Alfred George Gardiner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game
-- Alfred George Gardiner

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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
I want to have the memories of my time with you to keep me warm.
Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.
What destruction have I been blessed by?
It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.
Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.
No one man is superior to the game.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Alfred George Gardiner famous quotes

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